More Computers
What is a single chip that contains a complete CPU?
What is a microprocessor
What is a semiconductor device that acts like a switch and amplifies a weak signal?
What is a transistor
What is the SI unit of resistance?
What is the ohm
What is an electrical switch operated by an electromagnet called?
What is a relay
What is a collection of programs that contain instructions for displaying words and images on the screen for a user?
What is an operating system
What type of computer memory is used for temporary storage?
What is RAM
What is the process of replacing atoms of a semiconductor with atoms of another element?
What is doping
What is a material that allows current to flow through it with no resistance?
What is a superconductor
What are pieces of information stored in computers called?
What is data
What is the stored information and instructions that direct a computer to perform certain tasks?
What is software
What are the actual physical components of a computer called?
What is hardware
What is a device that increases or decreases the voltage of alternating current using electromagnetic induction?
What is a transformer
What is the transfer of an electric charge by direct contact between objects?
What is conduction
What is an electrical device designed to add resistance to a circuit?
What is a resistor
What is the branch of the study of electricity that deals with the behavior and motion of electrons in a vacuum or in semiconductors ?
What is electronics
What is the smallest directly accessible unit of data in a computer?
What is a byte
What is the most important device for converting electricity into motion?
What is a electric motor
Who built the first electrostatic generator?
Who is Otto von Guericke
What is the line connecting all points where a compass needle points true north?
What is a agonic line
Large computers designed to store and retrieve vast amounts of information.
What are mainframes
What are instructions written in a programming language?
What is source code
What is the semiconductor that lacks electrons?
What is a p-type
What is the electrostatic method of reproducing images on paper?
What is xerography
What is the imaginary line that circles Earth halfway between the two magnetic poles?
What is a magnetic equator
What is the type of data that can have any possible value within a specified range?
What is analog data